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Sascha Eder
Sascha Eder is CEO and co-founder of NewtonX, a New York-based B2B market research platform that uses an AI-driven Knowledge Graph to custom-recruit specialists from a pool of more than a billion professionals. A German-born former national track and field athlete, he trained at MIT and HEC Paris, consulted at McKinsey and BCG, and started NewtonX in 2017 with fellow McKinsey alum Germain Chastel after growing frustrated with the panels and speed of legacy research.
Matthias Wagner
Matthias Wagner is the German-born co-founder and CEO of Flux, the San Francisco-based AI hardware design platform that turns text prompts into production-ready circuit boards in a single browser tab. Before Flux, he produced the Crazy Frog 'Axel F' ringtone that accumulated nearly 3.8 billion YouTube views, led product teams at Facebook for Moments, AR ads, and Oculus VR, and built digital signage company 42 media group out of a friend's garage at age 24. He founded Flux in 2019 out of frustration that hardware tooling had not evolved in decades, and by 2026 had grown the platform to over 1 million sign-ups and raised $37 million in funding led by 8VC.